09/02/2026
4 Reasons CEO's Should Care About BCDR - Part 5
4. Because resilience matters
Ensuring access to applications and data following a disaster is just one piece of the BCDR puzzle. Evaluating your business’s ability to restore IT operations can be a good starting point for company-wide business continuity efforts, but good BCDR planning should look at the business as a whole, and the goal should be to develop business resilience, in addition to cyber resilience. In fact, many BCDR planning efforts start by conducting a business impact analysis or risk assessment — these studies can reveal weaknesses in your business’s ability to continue operations that go far beyond IT.
You know a disaster (natural or otherwise) will be coming to your company at some point. When it does, you want to be as well-prepared as possible.